Tag: sperm

  • The gut microbes of the dad matter when pregnant and growing a baby

    The gut microbes of the dad matter when pregnant and growing a baby

    An experiment was conducted to investigate the impact of antibiotic-induced disruption of the paternal gut as a previously unknown mode of a sperm-mediated effect on fetal development and offspring health. The genome was binnned into sliding tiles containing 50 consecutive CpGs and an RNA-seq quantification pipeline was used to generate log 2 reads per million…